Sentence examples for dampen unrest from inspiring English sources
BBC executives hope confirmation of the move will help to dampen unrest at the corporation among staff who are furious about the pension proposals.
An already job-saturated public sector was thus put at the forefront of government efforts to dampen social unrest.
At home, he pursued a similar policy, using censorship and a wide ranging spy network to dampen down unrest.
Nepal's bullying of its Tibetan community is more likely to incite unrest inside China than to dampen it.
Serwotka dampened ministers' hopes that the wave of industrial unrest over the changes that saw a strike by four unions in June, and 29 unions in November, was now at an end.
But the unrest – which reportedly included sectarian attacks on homes and shops belonging to members of the Hindu community – will dampen any hopes of a quick solution to the stand-off in the populous and poor Muslim-majority country.
Not since the uprising of 1959, during which the Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader, fled to India, has there been such widespread unrest across this oxygen-starved expanse of mountains and plateaus.Years of rapid economic growth, which China had hoped would dampen separatist demands, have achieved the opposite.
